Protest pop

Members of pop group Seifuku Kojo Iinkai, Rina Nishino, 15, Kana Kinashi, 17, Nao Saito, 15, and Yuria Saito, 18, perform in front of foreign media in Tokyo, Tuesday, July 28, 2015. The group "Seifuku Kojo Iinkai," which translates as "Uniform Improvement Committee, called on the international community of artists for support towards abandoning nuclear power.

July 30, 2015
10:27 am JST

July 30, 2015
10:45 am JST

i can only imagine what the music and words of this "protest song" are like. you can see the sincerity and emotion with which they are singing all over their faces and the way they express their outrage thru the medium of dance is also obvious.

July 30, 2015
11:17 am JST

July 30, 2015
11:30 am JST

If it's something these girls came up with on their own and are really passionate about this, I think this is awesome. We need the younger generation to care more since they'll be the ones living in the mess the older generation is creating for them.

July 30, 2015
11:32 am JST

The local paedophiles will be having a great day.

According to the DSM 4, a paedophile is a person who has sexual attraction to individuals that have NOT YET reached puberty. I do believe these girls are old enough to be past that point. Ignorant git.

July 30, 2015
11:37 am JST

The uniforms on thee girls are full regulation dress code and it looks smart! It looks much better than those public high school trouts getting around Tokyo with their bum hanging out their skirt and eye make up that makes them look like camels. I work in a private high school with similarly strict dress codes and I like it! All the male teachers and students must wear a tie all year and the girl students must wear a sweater or vest. It's a very studious look and it avoids any unwanted attention. I dunno how far they are going to get with their protest against nuclear power though. They'll be smothered pretty quickly by their peers. Good luck to them.

July 30, 2015
11:44 am JST

Harvey, given they are all in matching school uniforms i doubt they came up with this themselves...... Still, i guess some people think Japan can get by without nukes or object to the way Fukushima is being dealt with. in which case this is the group for them (or they could follow AKB or Chubbiness or the like...)

July 30, 2015
04:17 pm JST

July 30, 2015
04:37 pm JST

Of course, using a bunch of under-aged girls is the perfect way to get people attention. And I don't care if I get negative votes on this statement either.

Under age for what? Being pop idols? Or are you thinking they are there merely to please the pervs? I really despair about the number of people on here who claim these young girls (and groups like them) are under age... They are not being used in a pornographic manner so what does their age have to do with anything? It's about music not sex.